Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Rich Fonseca - Seventy two
Brazilian artist Rich Fonseca shows his interpretation of memory and how the act of remembering changes with time, through the use of color, shape and repetitive patterns.
"In dedication to the memory of my father Roger G. Daigle and how i remember him."
From October 6th to October 31st at Right Window Gallery
Opening Reception: October13th from 4 to 7 PM
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Steven Seidenberg – Lares and Penates
Steven Seidenberg
Lares and Penates: The Household Gods of East Berlin
September 1-30, 2013
Opening reception: Wednesday, September 11, 6-10 pm
Right Window is pleased to present Lares and Penates: The Household Gods of East Berlin by the San Francisco artist Steven Seidenberg. Right Window’s exhibitions are visible from the street; the gallery is open on Saturdays from 12-4 and by appointment.
Devised to allow the easy clearing of debris from roof and balcony drainage pipes, the cast-iron fittings imaged in this exhibition have largely disappeared—replaced by plastic and aluminum plates throughout the East Berlin neighborhoods where they were once prevalent. Each totemic grimace of these decaying visages intimates the history—and character of the Soviet era apartment blocks to which they are attached, both in growing state of disrepair and character of ornament unwittingly or illegally affixed. Some glare in eager anger at apathetic passersby, while others seem to hibernate in droll anticipation of an end that can’t come soon enough, but all declare a transit into utter dissolution otherwise unheralded by the denizens they’ve spent the last half century surveying. I seek in turn to witness and portend as witness the stages on the path towards the event horizon of complete elision, a performative decadence that transforms the commonplace of objects in abeyance into testament and sculptural abstraction.
In Roman religious practice, Lares and Penates were the deities of the household and domestic life. Lares were ancestral spirits to which everyday prayers and offerings were made, kept in the family shrine. Every family had its own Lar familiaris, beseeched to ensure familial health and longevity. Penates were the spirits of the pantry, taken out during meal times to preserve the family wealth and keep its members fed.
Please direct inquiries to the artist at sjseidenberg@gmail.com or visit www.stevenseidenberg.com.
Lares and Penates: The Household Gods of East Berlin
September 1-30, 2013
Opening reception: Wednesday, September 11, 6-10 pm
Right Window is pleased to present Lares and Penates: The Household Gods of East Berlin by the San Francisco artist Steven Seidenberg. Right Window’s exhibitions are visible from the street; the gallery is open on Saturdays from 12-4 and by appointment.
Devised to allow the easy clearing of debris from roof and balcony drainage pipes, the cast-iron fittings imaged in this exhibition have largely disappeared—replaced by plastic and aluminum plates throughout the East Berlin neighborhoods where they were once prevalent. Each totemic grimace of these decaying visages intimates the history—and character of the Soviet era apartment blocks to which they are attached, both in growing state of disrepair and character of ornament unwittingly or illegally affixed. Some glare in eager anger at apathetic passersby, while others seem to hibernate in droll anticipation of an end that can’t come soon enough, but all declare a transit into utter dissolution otherwise unheralded by the denizens they’ve spent the last half century surveying. I seek in turn to witness and portend as witness the stages on the path towards the event horizon of complete elision, a performative decadence that transforms the commonplace of objects in abeyance into testament and sculptural abstraction.
In Roman religious practice, Lares and Penates were the deities of the household and domestic life. Lares were ancestral spirits to which everyday prayers and offerings were made, kept in the family shrine. Every family had its own Lar familiaris, beseeched to ensure familial health and longevity. Penates were the spirits of the pantry, taken out during meal times to preserve the family wealth and keep its members fed.
Please direct inquiries to the artist at sjseidenberg@gmail.com or visit www.stevenseidenberg.com.
Friday, August 9, 2013
Amy Rathbone - Precipice
Precipice
August 10-30th, 2013
Precipice:
2 oz. rocks from Uji-shi, Japan
1/2 oz. rocks from the garden of Marit
3 stones – Milosevich fruit bowl (please return)
2 oz. rocks – Bolinas with parents (don’t pick the pretty ones)
1 Yuba River rock – trade for sip of beer with Robert
4 oz. gravel – with Jocelyn (wash hands after gathering)
1 cast rock from Pang
about 160 arm lengths of thread
staples from Scott
fan – or any form of fake wind
Gather common rocks and stones.
Abide between internal protest, direct experience and pure pleasure.
Crudely staple top rim. Just staple crooked. Don’t judge.
Prattle and wrap with other for five days.
Tie up, turn on.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Phillip Maisel - Stack
Stack
July 7 through 29, 2013
Opening reception: Sunday, July 7, 2013, 2-5 p.m.
Right Window is pleased to present Stack, by the Chicago-born, San Francisco-based Phillip Maisel, a group of recent photographs and site-specific sculpture that straddle the imaginary distance between 3-D and 2-D.
Phillip Maisel's photographs of the materials, walls and floors of his work space muddies the distinction between architectural image and the ways in which out of habit we perceive and label photographic space. In Maisel’s work, the distance drops out between viewer and judge, for he shows us not only tantalizing glimpses of work largely unseen and stacked against the wall, but what we learn is that the glimpse is all you’re ever going to get. The emotional lessons of his photos question both the use value and two-dimensionality of the medium, while confronting us with a physical presence influenced by sculpture.
Maisel revels in the “stack,” an agricultural figure that manages to capture opposing elements of primitive social action, that of the hunter, that of the gatherer. Were these inventions of history gendered from the start? Maisel absolves such cruel taxonomy with a light touch well suited to the gentle summer of San Francisco where you can see his work all month long in the storefront window of the city’s #1 gallery.
Please direct questions, requests for interviews, and so forth, to Kevin Killian (415) 728-6309, or visit the artist’s website: www.phillipmaisel.com.
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